Posted on 05/20/2022 9:39:13 AM PDT by shadowlands1960
Clinton's former campaign manager said he took the idea of leaking Trump-Russia allegations to multiple senior campaign officials.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook testified Friday that then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton approved the dissemination of materials alleging a covert communications channel between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank to the media, despite campaign officials not being "totally confident" in the legitimacy of the data.
Mook was called to the stand for testimony by Michael Sussmann’s defense Friday.
During cross-examination by government prosecutor Andrew DeFillippis Friday, Mook was asked about the campaign’s understanding of the Alfa Bank allegations against Trump and whether they planned to release the data to the media.
Mook said he was first briefed about the Alfa Bank issue by campaign general counsel Marc Elias, who at the time was a partner at lawfirm Perkins Coie.
Mook testified that he was told that the data had come from "people that had expertise in this sort of matter."
Mook said the campaign was not totally confident in the legitimacy of the data, but had hoped to give the information to a reporter who could further "run it down" to determine if it was "accurate" or "substantive."
He also said he discussed whether to give the information to a reporter with senior campaign officials, including campaign chairman John Podesta, senior policy advisor, now White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, and communications director Jennifer Palmieri.
"I discussed it with Hillary as well," Mook said.
"I don’t remember the substance of the conversation, but notionally, the discussion was, hey, we have this and we want to share it with a reporter," Mook said.
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"... the discussion was, hey, we have this and we want to share it with a reporter,"
I see an Arkancide in this man’s future.
I want to thank Captain Obvious......
LOL I'll bet.
We’ve known for years the Clinton campaign was behind the Russia collusion hoax... It’s not surprising that the mainstream media still ignores this... they were co-conspirators...
“Hillary Clinton approved dissemination of Trump-Russian bank allegations to media, campaign manager testifies”
Awwwww. Who’s going to believe that?????
Well well well
LOL at the reason why
form my live thread
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4064524/posts?q=1&;page=51
Mook said top staffers — John Podesta, Marc Elias, Jennifer Palmieri, Jake Sullivan — did not want the allegations turned over to the FBI because they weren’t “totally confident” in its veracity.
Mook said: “We decided to give it to a reporter so the reporter could run it down. Our hope was they (media) were going to run it down, that it would be substantive, and accurate.
They were probably insulating each-other... one part of the campaign creating the scandal the other part chasing the bread crumbs...
In the case of Mook, he probably knew exactly where this information was coming from, so he probably perjured himself here...
United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Number of years Democrats controlled the White House since 1980: 18
Democrat appointed judges: 18
Number of years Republicans controlled the White House since 1980: 24
Republican appointed judges: 10
Interesting factoid.
It was all done for Hillary by Hillary and her synchophants who were lining up for some big jobs and big pay days when she won.
He better get some heavy security going quick as the Arkansas mob is after him.
“Robby Mook didn’t kill himself!” In! :)
keep in mind Trump’s lawsuit against Hillary, et al concerning dissemination of hoax information.
Mook just testified under oath that they had doubts as to it truthfulness and Hillary approved its dissemination anyway.
Just wondering about the impact on that lawsuit
This is ********. This just means that she can act like she didn’t know what it was, just told them to go ahead and pass it on if they thought it was real
Just checked her twitter response, “They must have confused dissemination with my approval of Bill’s continued artificial semination”.
ALL of the GOP in Congress knew by June of 2017 that this was a Hillary hit job, and yet they continued to assist the Democrats to keep it going for long after that.
Hellman testified that whoever drafted the narrative describing the DNS data was "5150," and clarified on the stand that meant he believed the individual who came to the conclusions "was suffering from some mental disability."
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